BANGALORE: TERI has launched ‘Laltini’, the official mascot for its visionary project ‘Lighting a Billion lives (LaBL)’, which is committed to enabling a billion lives to access light from solar technologies. The mascot has been launched to connect with the rural communities and create awareness about the need for clean sources of lighting in these [...]
Business as usual is not an option in developing countries Inclusive business models aim to go beyond philanthropy and corporate social responsibility to find synergies between development goals and a company’s core business operations. The world is experiencing a historic shift of economic and political power from the traditional industrialised countries to the so-called developing [...]
Through the Rural Energy & Climate Initiative, ADB and Energy for All partner Nexus brought together project developers and financers during a three-day workshop in Siem Reap on 11-13 July 2011 to discuss how to make clean energy affordable for the poor. The workshop included a project marketplace and competition where developers were given the [...]
Manila, June 23, 2011 – Philips, Schneider Electric, and Siemens, all World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) members, outlined a business proposition aimed at enabling access to clean, reliable and affordable energy at a WBCSD-convened event at the 6th Asia Clean Energy Forum. Read the full article here.
The Energy for All Partnership Steering Committee met in on Tuesday June 21st in Manila to discuss progress of the partnership. Present members of the Steering Committee included representatives of ADB, SEAS, WBCSD, Global Sustainable Electricity Partnership, TERI, SNV, E+Co, REEEP, REEX Capital, and the National Electrification Administration of the Philippines. The steering committee welcomed [...]
Nexus-Carbon for Development is the newest member of EDWG. Nexus is a non-profit organization founded in 2008 by an alliance of pro-poor project developers as a peer-to-peer services platform, to create synergies between its members and provide awareness raising, capacity building, carbon project documentation, and carbon asset management. Nexus’s objective is to enable equitable and [...]
Between January and March 2011, CARD Business Development Services (BDS), an affiliate of CARD MRI – one of the largest microfinance institutions in the Philippines – trained more than 1,300 “nanays,” or small store owners, to become solar lighting resellers. Trainings were conducted in 7 provinces in the Philippines under a project supported by ADB [...]
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